Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Call for Papers for the "FOSS on Mobile Devices" devroom at @fosdem runs until the end of this week! Now is definitely the time to submit your talk proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit 😉️

Don't be shy, all free/open-source projects related to smartphones and tablets are welcome!

#FOSS #FLOSS #FOSDEM #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

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US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/05/mass-shootings-record-year "Country has had 38 mass shootings – in which at least 203 people have died – so far this year, passing previous high of 36" #guns #murica

@Rob_T_Firefly @ajroach42
yeah. how to earn money, how and where to work in tech becomes the question at that point. i say: cooperatives. band together and control your company and your work.

so yeah, organize. unions and cooperatives.
https://tech-coops.xyz/

The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew https://inthesetimes.com/article/adl-defamation-league-jvp-ifnotnow-musk

Atwater Village: Sowing Seeds of Economic Democracy
#WorkerCoops

"Eleven of the employees stepped up to become worker-owners, with another 13 remaining as employees. An employee can become a worker-owner after working for the bakery for a year and investing $2500 in the business, either up front or through paycheck deductions. Since the bakery opened as a cooperative a little over a year ago, it now has 13 worker-owners and 12 employees."

https://www.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/25915-atwater-village-sowing-seeds-of-economic-democracy

Montana Premium Processing Co-Op: Revolutionizing Meat Supply Chains Through Cooperative Innovation
#Coops

https://flowerhill.institute/mppta-blog-archive/montana-premium-processing-co-op

"Digital solidarity can manifest in many different forms including enhancing access to underutilised goods and services, increasing social inclusions, supporting vulnerable groups, as well as expanding education and skill development."
#SolidarityEconomy

[Digital Solidarity in the Sharing Economy]
https://geo.coop/articles/digital-solidarity-sharing-economy

3/ Reduce your need to earn, part 3.
#Permaculture #economics.

David Revoy painted this great version of Ada:
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1008/ada-from-ada-zangemann

@davidrevoy is doing amazing work (including for @Framasoft ), and he publishes it all under #CreativeCommons By Share Alike as well.

If you do not know his work, check out his website!

Also check it out, if you are interested to create artwork with #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) tools like @krita for which he publishes lot of tutorials and tools.

Freedom Press is an anarchist publishing house and bookseller in Whitechapel, London, UK, founded in 1886.

They've just officially retired their Twitter/X presence, set up in 2011, with 19.5K followers as of today.

They've been active here in the fediverse for years - follow them at @Freedom_Press

More about their decision:
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/04/x-isnt-an-airport-but-were-announcing-our-departure/

#TwitterMigration

23andMe was hacked, so if your information was compromised, make sure to change your genetic code ASAP. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23988050/23andme-hackers-accessed-user-data-confirmed

Almost 10 years ago, I co-founded @solidarityresearch with comrades from the @iww. Our work is at the intersection of solidarity economies and racial justice.

Please support us as a birthday gift for me. I have two more days to raise $7,262!

Donate at https://yvonnegraphy.com/2023/12/03/two-more-days-to-raise-7262/

Linus Torvalds is the keynote speaker (an interview, not a speech).

His brilliant stewardship of the Linux kernel has been the linchpin of a project that, long ago, was little more than an essential extension of GNU.

I believe I was the first "mainstream media" journalist to tell Americans about him and his project, back in 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News.

The story is buried behind a paywall, but someone helpfully posted it here:

https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1996/0908.html

Another company gets hacked for user data -- profoundly private data in this case, with DNA maven 23andMe -- and is caught lying about the extent of the damage, which is far, far worse than originally acknowledged: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/hackers-stole-ancestry-data-of-6-9-million-users-23andme-finally-confirmed/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.

Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.

#inkscape #openSource

"Flexible Absolutism"

More than 400 humans and legal entities have joined our non-profit organization Codeberg e.V.

If you want to help make a world of community-maintained services and libre software possible, consider joining us now:

https://join.codeberg.org/

I see many people using #Codeberg or self-hosted #Forgejo for #AdventOfCode and I love that 😍

Codeberg is booming, at least for personal projects 🚀

It is so "ironic" that Github, the leading platform for open source software, is proprietary… #FOSS gotta wake up one day!

I think that the planned federation will bring more collaborative projects over 🏃
Think of Mastodon for Git 🤩

#GiveUpGitHub #AOC #AOC2023